Download or read book The Riddle Of The Reluctant Rake written by Patricia Veryan and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant-Colonel Hastings Adair, best friend of Captain Jack Vespa, the dashing hero of Veryan's last two novels, wakes up in the arms of an unwed lady of Quality, scandalizing all of London, and in attempting to right things, runs straight into a government conspiracy... in The Riddle of the Reluctant Rake.